Sometimes an exhibition arrives with the shock of a new recognition. Just as in the case of the wonderful 1995 New York exhibition of Netherlandish stained glass, The Luminous Image, produced by [...] Read More
Book Reviews
Two Publications on Pieter Bruegel
Jürgen Müller, Das Paradox als Bildform. Studien zur Ikonologie Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1999. 195 pp, 6 col. and 48 b&w illus. ISBN 3-7705-3191-4. ‘Pieter Bruegel [...] Read More
Hieronymus Bosch in Rotterdam, Two Catalogues
J. Koldeweij, B. Vermet, P. Vandenbroeck, Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings [Cat. exh. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September 1 – November 11, 2001]. Rotterdam: Museum [...] Read More
Hans von Aachen, 1552-1615
At around age 22, as Karel van Mander tells us, Hans von Aachen left his native Cologne for Venice and offered his assistance to the artist Gaspar Rem, only to be mocked as a provincial who surely [...] Read More
The Holy Kinship. A Medieval Masterpiece
In the Spring of 2001, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum put on show its recently restored Holy Kinship, traditionally attributed to Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Almost twenty years ago, in 1983, the painting had [...] Read More
Hugo van der Goes
Alongside recent studies on Hieronymous Bosch, Robert Campin, and Rogier van der Weyden, this French-language monograph on Hugo van der Goes is the fourth published by Fonds Mercator to focus on an [...] Read More